Posted on 03/25/2025 8:25:42 AM PDT by DFG
A megachurch pastor faces jail for stalking a female congregation member after being caught twice breaking into her home on CCTV.
Marie Columna, 43, said she’s “still afraid” of Sergio Guardia, 49, a minister at the renowned Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Guardia was convicted by a jury last week on two counts of burglary and one count of stalking, according to Lynchburg Circuit Court and faces up to ten years in jail.
The megachurch in Lynchburg — founded by Jerry Falwell Sr. and affiliated with Liberty University — is one of the most celebrated Baptist churches in the country and is affiliated with the scandal-hit Southern Baptist Convention.
Marie, 43, a service coordinator for early intervention said she reported Guardia’s increasingly bizarre behavior before leaving the church in 2016 — but “nothing was ever done about it”.
The Lynchburg woman is speaking out about the 2023 break-ins, caught on security camera footage.
“I was out of state with my children visiting a friend, and I got a notification on my phone that a person was in my house,” Marie recalled.
The footage, captured at 11:30 p.m. on November 10, revealed Guardia walking through the door and creeping around the kitchen.
“Every light was off, and he was using the flashlight on his phone. It was very clear that he knew exactly where he was – that he had been in my house before.”
Guardia, wearing sweatshirt and jeans, appeared to notice the camera and ran away.
Marie, who had installed security cameras about a month before, due to a series of neighborhood break-ins, said she called police the next morning.
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He listed it as an employer on Rocket.
“This little light of mine
I’m gonna let it shine...” 🎶
#1. Lock door, no easy key.
#1.5 Sell furniture and take course on self-defense with guns. Kid too. Become a warrior.
#2. Get shotgun for in home, hand gun for carry.
#3. Ask your male friends to call his church.
#4. Police will be there to help after he kills you. Send him to Jesus.
Looks like this report is a lie then, he never worked at the church they claim he was a pastor at.
And even if they changed the headline from "Megachurch Pastor" to the more accurate "Megachurch Ex-Pastor," it's still deliberately misleading, because those words with no context imply he is/was the head pastor, instead of just one of many pastors on the staff. In this case, pastor for Hispanic outreach.
Sadly crooked people use,religion as a front for their crimes- not everyone who claims to be saved is saved. As well, even saved people are still sinners saved by grace, a d can and do fall into sin regularly. It,is a lifelong battle- becoming g saved doesn’t mean automatic sinlessness- and the worse a person is before salvsti9n, the harder it Wil be for the person to flee from their past sins once saved- many are plagued their whole lives with certain sins- that is just one of the serious consequences of sin- hav8ng to always fight it. Many do succeed, but some don’t and fall back into their old lifestyles.
I don’t see it mentioning that church. It does mention southern Baptist though.
The SBC is a large and diverse group. It’s only a “convention” for a week a year. Churches are mostly free to run how they want to run themselves. Honestly a more Biblical New Testament approach if you ask me.
That being said, lots of wolves among the sheep and the media loves to paint the SBC with a broad brush.
Was he going on a panty raid?
“Looks like this report is a lie then, he never worked at the church they claim he was a pastor at.”
LOL! it pays to READ!
-————From the link you didn’t read—
Sergio Guardia brings experience from previous roles at SBC of Virginia, Thomas Road Baptist Church
Yes it pays to read.
Thomas Road Baptist Church
I did not see that on his resume, did you? If so where because I missed it.
“I did not see that on his resume, did you? If so where because I missed it.”
As I posted, the link you didn’t read but claimed in a response to the link “I did not see that on his resume, did you? If so where because I missed it.”
I did not see that church name on his resume. Please post the entire line.
“I did not see that church name on his resume. Please post the entire line.”
I quoted almost the whole sentence from the beginning. Do a word search.
Which link should I search?
the renowned Thomas Road Baptist Church
Never heard of it. Is this so-called “Mega” church bigger than that one in Rome?
The one you posted to claiming he was never a pastor at the church.
Here’s the link I posted:
https://trbc.org/staff/
I still don’t see it. Please show me. Not joking I really want to see it. I must be going blind.
Go to your #38 at hit the “To 36”.
“a lie? the better assumption is he as been deleted from the website for some reason.”
The poster posted what he wanted the link to show without reading the link.
The link he says that proved he never worked there shows that he worked there.
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